Dr Minos-Athanasios KARYOTAKIS has a PhD in Communication from the Hong Kong Baptist University School of Communication. His research interests include International Media Politics, Environmental Communication, Hate Propaganda, Media Ethics, and Power Relations.

Book: 

• Karyotakis, M.-A. (2025). Populism, Name Disputes, and Hyperreality: Greek Nationalism and the Macedonian Case. Bloomsbury Publications. URL: https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881894702   

Book Chapter: 

• Karyotakis, M.-A. (2025). Framing Wildlife through National Geographic: Animal Logic in the Anthropocene. In The Wild: Image, Industry, and Technology, Lexington Books. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978748392.ch-010  

• Karyotakis, M.-A., Lamprou, E., Kiourexidou M., & Antonopoulos N. (2022). Crowdfunding, crowdsourcing and crowdcreation in media websites. In S. Iordanidou & C. Dagoula (Eds.), 6+1 Proposals for the Future of Journalism: Reflections and approaches through a European perspective. Intellect.  

• Karyotakis, M.-A. (2021). Communicating hate on YouTube: The Macedonian Identity in Focus. In I. Chiluwa (Ed.), Discourse and Conflict: Analysing Text and Talk of Conflict, Hate and Peace-Building (preface by Teun A. van Dijk). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76485-2_8 

• Antonopoulos, N., & Karyotakis, M.-A. (2020). Data Journalism. In D. L. Merskin (Ed.), The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society (Vol. 1, pp. 440–441). Thousands Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483375519.n175 

• Antonopoulos, N., & Karyotakis, M.-A. (2020). Environmental Communication. In D. L. Merskin (Ed.), The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society (Vol. 1, pp. 551–552). Thousands Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781483375519.n221 

Journal Article: 

• Karyotakis, M.-A. (2026). The Story of Two Successful and Contentious Securitizations of the Macedonian Name Dispute in Greece. Southeast European and Black Sea studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2026.2668857   

• Karyotakis, M.-A. (2026). Territorial Disputes, and the Changes of Names: A Framing Study of the South China Sea’s News Coverage. Media, War & Conflict. https://doi.org/10.1177/17506352261431173  

• Karyotakis, M.-A., & Lo, K. (2026). Communication geography and the spatio-discursive construction of BRI projects: Geographical frames in media discourses on Piraeus Port. Mediterranean Politics. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714421.2025.2545675  

• Karyotakis, M.-A., & Salojärvi, V. (2025). Communicating Security Threats: Emergency Politics, the Media, and the Role of the Public. The Communication Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714421.2025.2545675   

• Karyotakis, M.-A., & Zen, C.M. (2025). Securitizing the Greek football? Communication, Hooliganism and Lessons Learned from the United Kingdom. The Communication Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714421.2025.2545678   

• Karyotakis, M.-A. (2025). Policing the Macedonian Name: How the Greek Governments Protect a Territorial Name. Territory, Politics, Governance. https://doi.org/10.1080/21622671.2025.2469886  

• Karyotakis, M.-A., & Lo, K. (2024). The political ecology of wildfire: Media and the politics of blame in the Evros wildfires in Greece. Trees, Forests and People, 18, 100682. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tfp.2024.100682  

• Karyotakis, M.-A. (2024). Exercising control in media during Covid-19: the “Stay at Home” campaign on Twitter in Greece. Humanit Soc Sci Commun, 11, 712. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03240-w  

• Karyotakis, M.-A. (2023). The use of the Macedonian name dispute on the candidates’ websites in Northern Greece’s regional and municipal elections of 2019. Mediterranean Politics. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2023.2240122  

• Karyotakis, M.-A. (2023). Disinformation and weaponized communication: The spread of ideological hate about the Macedonian name in Greece. Journalism. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849231152362  

• Karyotakis, M.-A. (2022). Framing the Macedonian Name Dispute in Greece: Nationalistic Journalism and the Existential Threat. The Communication Review, 25(3–4), 152–180. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714421.2022.2129125  

• Karyotakis, M.-A. (2021). Covering the Wildfire of Mati in Greece: Undermining the Systemic Human Impact on the Environment. Journalism Practice, 16(2–3), 425–442. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2021.1969986  

• Karyotakis, M.-A., & Antonopoulos, N. (2021). Web Communication: A Content Analysis of Green Hosting Companies. Sustainability 13(2), 495. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13020495  

• Karyotakis, M.-A., Kiourexidou, M., & Antonopoulos, N. (2019). Media and YouTube Appeal in Social Movement Mobilization: The Case of Anti-Tourism Incident. Media Watch 10(3), 687–701. https://doi.org/10.15655/mw/2019/v10i3/49691  

• Karyotakis, M.-A., Lamprou, E., Kiourexidou, M., & Antonopoulos, N. (2019). SEO Practices: A Study about the Way News Websites Allow the Users to Comment on Their News Articles. Future Internet, 11(9), 188. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi11090188  

• Karyotakis, M.-A., Antonopoulos, N., & Saridou, T. (2019). A case study in news articles, users comments and a Facebook group for Article 3 of the Greek Constitution. KOME, 7(2), 37–56. https://www.doi.org/10.17646/KOME.75672.31  

• Antonopoulos, N., Karyotakis, M.-A., Kiourexidou, M., & Veglis, A. (2019). Media Websites Environmental Communication: Operational Practices and News Coverage. World of Media. Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies, 2, 44–63. https://doi.org/10.30547/worldofmedia.2.2019.3  

• Karyotakis, M.-A., Antonopoulos, N., Veglis, A., & Kiourexidou, M. (2018). Tourist go home: Communication and Propaganda on YouTube. Journal of Media Critiques, 4(14), 323–337. https://doi.org/10.17349/jmc118224  

• Karyotakis, M.-A., Panagiotou, N., Antonopoulos, N., & Kiourexidou, M. (2017). Digital Media Framing of the Egyptian Arab Spring: Comparing Al Jazeera, BBC and China Daily. Studies in Media and Communication, 5(2), 66–75. https://doi.org/10.11114/smc.v5i2.2664